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Jacob NolletteCloud & software engineer
Topic · 8 case studies

Reliability

Monitoring that watches outcomes instead of jobs, backups that have actually been restored, and the incidents that taught me the difference.

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Nine Copies of Every Write

Sep 9, 2026 | Infrastructure, Reliability

I run a five-node Proxmox cluster with hyperconverged Ceph and a three-node Kubernetes control plane on top of it. It has been up for over a year. Nothing crashes, deployments roll, pods schedule. It was just slow, in a way I could never quite point at. A kubectl...